Patents by Inventor Mamoru Watanabe

Mamoru Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7614784
    Abstract: To provide a residual wound quantity display mechanism of a timepiece, in which it is possible to change a way of a display without changing a basic structure, and a timepiece with the mechanism concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7609588
    Abstract: A multifunctional watch has a movement including first and second train wheel rotational centers each arranged at a position between a center of a main plate and an outline portion of the main plate. The first and second train wheel rotational centers are provided with respective first and second train wheel guide portions rotatably guiding respective first and second train wheel members about the respective first and second train wheel rotational centers. A first train wheel having the first train wheel member is arranged rotatably relative to the first train wheel rotational center for rotating one of the small hands only in a single direction of rotation to display the first calendar information. A second train wheel having the second train wheel member is arranged rotatably relative to the second train wheel rotational center for rotating another of the small hands only in a single direction of rotation to display the second calendar information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tokoro, Kei Hirano, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090205689
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dishwasher which permits cost reductions while enabling increased strength. A reinforcement member is mounted between pillars, which are erected in the corners of a machine chamber, and a functional part for executing washing and rinsing is fixed to the reinforcement member. Here, an example of the functional part is a washing pump for delivering washing water. Furthermore, another example for the functional part is a connecting part for connecting electrical wiring between a control box and a detergent supply device or a booster or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: HOSHIZAKI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Tameishi, Kouji Suyama, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090155273
    Abstract: Antibodies against AILIM (also called ICOS and 8F4) were found to significantly suppress the onset of inflammatory bowel diseases (especially Crohn's disease and colitis (ulcerative colitis and such)), and exhibit a significant therapeutic effect against inflammatory bowel diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090129207
    Abstract: To provide a calendar mechanism-attached timepiece having a thin date feeding mechanism and month feeding mechanism. A calendar mechanism-attached timepiece of the invention includes a date indicator, a month indicator, a date indicator driving wheel, a date feed finger, and a small month end feed lever. The date indicator includes a month feed tooth for rotating an intermediate month wheel and a small month end feed tooth for feeding the date indicator at a month end of a small month. The month indicator includes a month cam for operating a small month end feed lever at a month end of a small month. The small month end feed lever is constituted to be able to feed the date indicator by an amount of 1 day based on rotation of the date indicator driving wheel and rotation of the month cam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7532546
    Abstract: A timepiece with calendar mechanism has a time indicator that indicates time by undergoing rotation in accordance with a driving operation of a drive mechanism, and first and second separate and independent date indicators each having date characters and each mounted to undergo intermittent rotation so that combinations of the date characters of the first and second date indicators indicate a units numeral of a date. A third date indicator has date characters and is mounted to undergo rotation for indicating a tens numeral of the date. A program wheel intermittently rotates the first, second and third date indicators in accordance with a driving operation of the drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeo Suzuki, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7531160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fine hollow powder with a titanium oxide shell, obtained by spray drying an exfoliated titania sol, and thin flaky titanium oxide powder obtained by pulverizing the fine hollow powder, and also to processes for producing the same. The present fine hollow powder and thin flaky titanium oxide powder have a distinguished dispersibility and are useful for additives to cosmetics, pigments, paints, etc., and the present fine hollow powder also has a distinguished flowability and is useful for seed particles for flow measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sasaki, Mamoru Watanabe, Yuichi Michiue, Masaki Iida
  • Patent number: 7532749
    Abstract: Provided is a light processing apparatus which can judge goodness or badness of small amount and various kind processing, and is useful for small amount and various kind processing, and can realize light processing at an appropriate position in conformity with a state of a substrate, at low cost, and can prevent production of a bad item before it happens, and enables local heating by focusing light energy, and is useful for a processing apparatus such as solder joint or heat processing of resin and a production equipment which used this. A state of an object to be processed enters into an image receiving unit, through a first light path and a second light path. This image and an image which was set up in a storage device in advance are compared, and goodness or badness judgment is carried out. There occurs a change of a point to be irradiated, in an approximately horizontal direction to the first light path, between a case that the object to be processed is in a warp age state, and a case that it is not so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Watanabe, Masashi Ishiguro, Tomoko Fukunaka, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Masahiro Sato, Manabu Nishihara, Kenji Takahashi, Shinsuke Shimabayashi
  • Patent number: 7498463
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oxide catalyst for use in catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane or isobutane in the gaseous phase, which comprises a composition represented by the Mo1VaSbbNbcZdOn (wherein: Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of tungsten, chromium, titanium, aluminum, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, manganese, iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, palladium, platinum, zinc, boron, indium, germanium, tin, lead, bismuth, yttrium, gallium, rare earth elements and alkaline earth metals; and a, b, c, d, and n are, respectively, the atomic ratios of V, Sb, Nb, Z and O, relative to Mo), wherein 0.1?a<0.4, 0.1<b?0.4, 0.01?c?0.3, 0?d?1, with the proviso that a<b, and n is a number determined by and consistent with the valence requirements of the other elements present. Also disclosed is a process for producing an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an unsaturated nitrile by using the above-mentioned oxide catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Hinago, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7492669
    Abstract: A timepiece is provided with a calendar mechanism having a first date indicator for indicating a units position of a date and a second date indicator for indicating a tens position of the date. The first date indicator has a drive cam for rotating the second date indicator and determining a position of the second date indicator. The second date indicator includes a first date character indicating face having numerals “1”, “2”, “3”, and “0”, and a second date character indicating face having a fan-like shape and including four pieces of trapezoidal-shaped portions formed by a pitch interval of (2*360/31) degrees through (3*360/31) degrees, three pieces of notched portions formed by a pitch interval of (2*360/31) degrees through (3*360/31) degrees, and a set of numerals comprising a numeral of “1”, a numeral of “2”, a numeral of “3”, and a numeral of “0”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7465444
    Abstract: Antibodies against AILIM (also called ICOS and 8F4) were found to significantly suppress the onset of inflammatory bowel diseases (especially Crohn's disease and colitis (ulcerative colitis and such)), and exhibit a significant therapeutic effect against inflammatory bowel diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7443768
    Abstract: There is realized a multifunction timepiece constituted to be able to constitute a plurality of types of hand operating train wheels by only changing positions of integrating parts without changing dimensions and shapes of parts of a movement. A movement of a multifunction timepiece includes a first train wheel rotation center, and a second train wheel rotation center. A train wheel for indicating calendar information is arranged to be rotatable relative to one of the first train wheel rotation center, and the second train wheel rotation center. When the first train wheel rotation center is arranged with a train wheel for indicating calendar information, the calendar information can be indicated by a small hand rotated to move by the train wheel, when the second train wheel rotation center is arranged with a fan shape hand operating train wheel for indicating the calendar information, the calendar information can be indicated by a small hand moved in a fan shape operating train wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Watanabe, Takeshi Tokoro, Kei Hirano
  • Patent number: 7433272
    Abstract: A timepiece with a calendar mechanism has a drive mechanism and a time display wheel that undergoes rotation by an operation of the drive mechanism to display time information. A first date indicator is mounted to undergo intermittent rotation to display the ones place of a date. A second date indicator is mounted to undergo intermittent rotation to display the tens place of the date. A program gear wheel intermittently rotates the first and second date indicators in accordance with operation of the drive mechanism. The program gear wheel has a first program tooth disposed on an outer peripheral part of the program gear wheel for intermittently rotating the first date indicator and a second program tooth disposed in an inner peripheral part of the program gear wheel for intermittently rotating the second date indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080234513
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oxide catalyst for use in catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane or isobutane in the gaseous phase, which comprises a composition represented by the Mo1VaSbbNbcZdOn (wherein: Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of tungsten, chromium, titanium, aluminum, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, manganese, iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, palladium, platinum, zinc, boron, indium, germanium, tin, lead, bismuth, yttrium, gallium, rare earth elements and alkaline earth metals; and a, b, c, d, and n are, respectively, the atomic ratios of V, Sb, Nb, Z and O, relative to Mo), wherein 0.1?a<0.4, 0.1<b?0.4, 0.01?c?0.3, 0?d?1, with the proviso that a<b, and n is a number determined by and consistent with the valence requirements of the other elements present. Also disclosed is a process for producing an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an unsaturated nitrile by using the above-mentioned oxide catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Asashi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Hinago, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7419085
    Abstract: The invention presents a optical processing apparatus capable of detecting accurately the sticking status of deposits sticking to optical means in a background of same color as deposits, preventing occurrence of defective soldering due to feeding failure of wire solder, and detecting solder failure when the leading end portion of the wire solder does not reach up to the processing area. This optical processing apparatus comprises light energy output means for producing light energy, a first optical path for guiding the light energy into a work, optical means disposed in the first optical path for shaping the light energy, a second optical path sharing part of the first optical path for guiding the light from the work to photo receiving means, and driving means for changing the relative positions of at least the optical means and the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoko Fukunaka, Masashi Ishiguro, Mamoru Watanabe, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Masahiro Sato, Ryoji Inutsuka, Kenji Takahashi, Toshikazu Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20080205199
    Abstract: To provide a residual wound quantity display mechanism of a timepiece, in which it is possible to change a way of a display without changing a basic structure, and a timepiece with the mechanism concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080130419
    Abstract: There is realized a multifunction timepiece constituted to be able to constitute a plurality of types of hand operating train wheels by only changing positions of integrating parts without changing dimensions and shapes of parts of a movement. A movement of a multifunction timepiece includes a first train wheel rotation center, and a second train wheel rotation center. A train wheel for indicating calendar information is arranged to be rotatable relative to one of the first train wheel rotation center, and the second train wheel rotation center. When the first train wheel rotation center is arranged with a train wheel for indicating calendar information, the calendar information can be indicated by a small hand rotated to move by the train wheel, when the second train wheel rotation center is arranged with a fan shape hand operating train wheel for indicating the calendar information, the calendar information can be indicated by a small hand moved in a fan shape operating train wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Watanabe, Takeshi Tokoro, Kei Hirano
  • Patent number: 7378541
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oxide catalyst for use in catalytic oxidation or ammoxidation of propane or isobutane in the gaseous phase, which comprises a composition represented by the Mo1VaSbbNbcZdOn (wherein: Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of tungsten, chromium, titanium, aluminum, tantalum, zirconium, hafnium, manganese, iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, palladium, platinum, zinc, boron, indium, germanium, tin, lead, bismuth, yttrium, gallium, rare earth elements and alkaline earth metals; and a, b, c, d, and n are, respectively, the atomic ratios of V, Sb, Nb, Z and O, relative to Mo), wherein 0.1?a<0.4, 0.1<b?0.4, 0.01?c?0.3, 0?d?1, with the proviso that a<b, and n is a number determined by and consistent with the valence requirements of the other elements present. Also disclosed is a process for producing an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an unsaturated nitrile by using the above-mentioned oxide catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Hinago, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080031807
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fine hollow powder with a titanium oxide shell, obtained by spray drying an exfoliated titania sol, and thin flaky titanium oxide powder obtained by pulverizing the fine hollow powder, and also to processes for producing the same. The present fine hollow powder and thin flaky titanium oxide powder have a distinguished dispersibility and are useful for additives to cosmetics, pigments, paints, etc., and the present fine hollow powder also has a distinguished flowability and is useful for seed particles for flow measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sasaki, Mamoru Watanabe, Yuichi Michiue
  • Publication number: 20080008645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fine hollow powder with a titanium oxide shell, obtained by spray drying an exfoliated titania sol, and thin flaky titanium oxide powder obtained by pulverizing the fine hollow powder, and also to processes for producing the same. The present fine hollow powder and thin flaky titanium oxide powder have a distinguished dispersibility and are useful for additives to cosmetics, pigments, paints, etc., and the present fine hollow powder also has a distinguished flowability and is useful for seed particles for flow measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sasaki, Mamoru Watanabe, Yuichi Michiue, Masaki Iida